Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
Pasting code from the Internet into production code is like chewing gum found in the street.
Anonymous
Process is no substitute for synaptic activity.
Jeff DeLuca
Designing software in a team is like writing poetry in a committee meeting.
Joel Spolsky
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.
Douglas Crockford
Documentation is like sex. When it's good, it's fantastic. When it's bad, it's still better than nothing.
Anonymous
Elegance is not optional.
Richard A. O'Keefe (from The Craft of Prolog)
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'
Isaac Asimov
So many good ideas are never heard from again once they embark in a voyage on the semantic gulf.
Alan J. Perlis
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
Edsger Dijkstra